Mathematician's call for interdisciplinary research effort

Abstract

The article addresses the necessity of increasing the role of mathematics in the psychological intervention in problem gambling, including cognitive therapies. It also calls for interdisciplinary research with the direct contribution of mathematics. The current contributions and limitations of the role of mathematics are analysed with an eye toward the professional profiles of the researchers. An enhanced collaboration between these two disciplines is suggested and predicted.

Keywords:

• gambling
• mathematics
• responsible gambling
• psychology
• research design

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Catalin Barboianu

Catalin Barboianu is gaming mathematician, author of eight books on mathematics of gambling. He is the leader of a private research group in applied mathematics and militates for the exposure of the mathematical facts of games of chance to the gamblers.